Motivational Quotes

Failure

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

- Tracy, Brian

Best Quotes about Failure

Thought is born of failure.

Whyte, Lancelot Law

We learn from failure much more than from success; we often discover what we will do by finding our what we will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

Smiles, Samuel

We need to teach the highly educated man that it is not a disgrace to fail and that he must analyze every failure to find its cause. He must learn how to fail intelligently, for failing is one of the greatest arts in the world.

Kettering, Charles F.

I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.

Aaron, Hank

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.

Stein, Ben

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

Bartkowski, Steve

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.

Clemenceau, Georges

However things may seem, no evil thing is success and no good thing is failure.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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No man is a failure who is enjoying life.

Feather, William

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They fail, and they alone, who have not striven.

Aldrich, Thomas B.

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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Success is 99 percent failure.

Honda, Soichiro

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Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

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The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of nothing attempted, nothing gained and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.

Peterson, Wilferd A.

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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.

Viscott, David

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When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Mansfield, Katherine

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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

Ziglar, Zig

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There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Waitley, Denis

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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Failure -- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.

Hubbard, Elbert

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I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Robbins, Anthony

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

Robertson, Frederick W.

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When you stand at the edge of the cliff, jump to fly, not to fall.

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It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

Baxter, Anne

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You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

Clarke, J. Richard

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He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

Heller, Joseph

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Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Lao-Tzu

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Every failure is a step to success.

Whewell, William

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You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flatBut to lie there-that's a disgrace.

Cooke, E. V.

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Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.

Korda, Michael

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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All honor to him who shall win the prize. The world has cried for a thousand years. But to him who tries and fails and dies, I give great honor and glory and tears.

Miller, Joaquin

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Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

Dahlberg, Edward

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Every person who has become successful has simply formed the habit of doing things that failures dislike doing and will not do.